OUTER WEST VISUAL ART TEACHERS NETWORK
On Thursday afternoon I will host the first meeting of the OUTER WEST VISUAL ART TEACHERS NETWORK! It is being held in the main art room so I have some serious tidying up to do between now and then!!!...
View ArticleNext Meeting OUTER WEST VISUAL ART TEACHERS NETWORK
It is less than 12 months since we had our first meeting and our OUTER WEST VISUAL ART TEACHERS NETWORK is thriving! We had our first professional learning day, organized by ourselves, for ourselves,...
View ArticleGRADE 3 DAVID HOCKNEY STYLE SWIMMING PAINTINGS
UPDATE: I have added a few more photos to this post!!! I saw this idea on USE YOUR COLOURED PENCILS ages ago and thought it would work well with my grade 3 students. Grade 3 David Hockney style swimmer...
View ArticleGRADE 5 COLOUR ZENTANGLE LANDSCAPES
Grade 5 zentangle landscape drawing 24 I saw a post, ages ago, on one of my favourite art teacher blogs, ARTE A SCUOLA.COM, full of patterned landscapes which I thought were gorgeous. As I have done...
View ArticleGrade 4 Picasso face paper collage
I am currently sitting at Aquapulse, the new aquatic centre in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, typing this blog post. My 12 year old daughter Georgie and her friend Natalie are screaming down the giant...
View ArticlePAINTED CDs
I had always wanted to do some sort of outdoor mural and Cambridge Primary School has so many boring blank walls that I had to come up with something. question marks I decided on a CD tree after seeing...
View ArticleFIELD OF PAPER POPPIES APRIL 2015
April 25th 2015 was the 100th anniversary of ANZAC Day. paper poppies field April 2015 2 I am part of the Special Weeks committee, which organizes all sorts of Special Events as part of the school...
View ArticleBUT WHAT ABOUT CLAY???
It has come to my attention that lots of Visual Arts programs/classrooms don’t seem to be doing clay anymore! grade 1 clay 57 I have developed this opinion after discussing it, off the cuff, at school,...
View ArticleGRADE 5 MONA LISA PARODY DRAWINGS
These interesting, amusing parodies of Mona Lisa were created by the Grade 5 students after they looked at several examples. We looked at a large print of the Mona Lisa and discussed what the...
View ArticleGRADE 3 SUNFLOWER PAINTINGS
These stunning sunflower paintings were created by the Grade 3 students after they looked at the sunflower paintings and drawings created by Vincent Van Gogh. grade 3 van gogh sunflowers painting 57...
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